Intels Atom processor and the netbook are the silicon equivalent of Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson; theyre inseparable. Naturally we cant wait for the dual-core Atom 330 to cozy up to the next generation of economical portables, but have to wait a bit as its being soldered exclusively into tiny desktops at the moment, like the one tech site The Guru of 3D just ran through a series of benchmarks. The posted results could have been interesting had they compared its performance to the single-core Atom 230 rather than AMDs (relatively) heavy-hitting Athlon 4850 X2 and Phenom 9850 -- not exactly apples to apples. Well just have to assume its roughly twice as fast on the right apps, all that for only twice the power consumption. Thats still only a measly 8-watts!
